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  • The Hinge

    Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond individual grasp, we often come together in small communities to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Talking Art

    The Culture of Practice & the Practice of Culture in MFA Education

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    In Talking Art, acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master's-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fine reveals how MFA programs have shifted the goal of creating art away from beauty and toward theory. Contemporary visual art, Fine argues, is no longer ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Players and Pawns

    How Chess Builds Community and Culture

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account in their play. Surrounding that one-on-one contest is a community life that can be nearly as dramatic and intense as the across-the-board confrontation ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • With the Boys

    Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    What are boys like? Who is the creature inhabiting the twilight zone between the perils of the Oedipus complex and the Strum und Drang of puberty? In With the Boys, Gary Alan Fine examines the American male preadolescent by studying the world of Little League baseball. Drawings on three years of firsthand observation of five Little Leagues, Fine describes how, through organized sport and its ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Interpreting Contentious Memory

    Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past

    by Edna Lomsky-Feder, Nicole Fox, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, Cal Abbo, Sofya Aptekar, Claire Whitlinger, Amy Sodaro, Werner Bohleber, Carol A. Kidron, Selma Leydesdorff, Jacob Caponi, Fatma Müge Göçek ...
    Series series Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
    Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Fair Share

    Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    A deeply researched ethnographic portrait of progressive senior activists in Chicago who demonstrate how a tiny public wields collective power to advocate for broad social change.If you've ever been to a protest or been involved in a movement for social change, you have likely experienced a local culture, one with slogans, jargon, and shared commitments. Though one might think of a cohort of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Group Life

    An Invitation to Local Sociology

    by Gary Alan Fine, Tim Hallett ...
    Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects the two. To understand how structures matter and how individuals navigate them, we must take groups and people in local communities seriously.Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett skillfully argue that sociologists have the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Kitchens

    The Culture of Restaurant Work

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Global Grapevine

    Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter

    by Gary Alan Fine, Bill Ellis ...
    Far from mere idle tales, rumors are a valuable window into our anxieties and fears. Rumors let us talk as a community about some very inflammatory issues--issues that may be embarrassing or disturbing to discuss-allowing us to act as if we are talking about real events, not personal beliefs. We can air our hidden fears and desires without claiming these attitudes as our own. In The Global ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Gifted Tongues

    High School Debate and Adolescent Culture

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Authors of the Storm

    Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

    by Gary Alan Fine ...
    Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, “the weather” is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government meteorologists and forecasters go about their jobs is rarely scrutinized. Given recent weather-related disasters, it’s time we find out more. In Authors ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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  • Practicing Ethnography

    A Student Guide to Method and Methodology

    by Lynda Mannik, Karen McGarry ...
    Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America to learn how various methods work in the real world, and how ethnography informs contemporary anthropological ... Read more

    $36.89 USD